their tailors’ tutors, No heretics burned but wenches’ suitors’ Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion. When every case in law is right, No squire in debt, nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in tongues, Nor cutpurses come not to throngs; When usurers tell their gold I’ the field, And bawds and shores do churches build, Then comes the time, who lives to see ‘t, That going shall be used with feet.This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before hisTime.”(III, II, 79.)-The Fool’s allusions to great ironies in life reflects his opinion of Lear’s choice to split his kingship up among Goneril and Regan. -He is showing us the wrongfulness of Lear’s decision, and how it defies against all rules of nature.-All the things that are meant to be are not, which for Lear is going to cause him suffering.-He should’ve waited to die and then pass on his kingdom to his daughters, and he did not, he should’ve given Cordelia most of his kingdom and he gave her none. 20. “And I’ll go to bed at noon.”(III, VI, 85.)-This is a response to Lear’s ironic statement: “We’ll go to supper I’the morning.” (III, VI, 83.)-The Fool is obviously responding to Lear’s foolish statement by paralleling it with a statement just as senseless.-This is the last line the Fool has in the play, in a sense his sleep to symbolize a “death” of his character in the play....
